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    Solved Lost GUI and SSH on upgrading to 13.2 - advice on how you would proceed

    TL:dR; After upgrading to 13.2 STABLE from 12.4, everything was fine for a day. But now I have lost the GUI (was XFCE4) and cannot SSH in. Where would you start troubleshooting this? I would be truly grateful for any advice you may have. For example, try and get SSH working, the desktop...
  2. GoNeFast_01

    Hardware Pictures

    Going to try to start a trend here but for hardware.... I've been building hardware since I was very young and some in welcome page show some old hardware (always cool to see).... I got new stuff that I MOD or Build with my own 2 hands. I've water cool every computer I owned (here are some...
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    Adding 4th HDD to PC Tower internal totally blocks rootfs boot.

    I inherited a PC tower that was already built with a single HDD installed running Windows 10 with permission to essentially do whatever I could with it as long as I do not delete the Windows 10 or any of the user content on there. This person also had all sorts of drives, cables, etc (everything...
  4. subnetspider

    Solved What are your hardware recommendations for a FreeBSD desktop in 2023?

    Hello everyone, I've recently attempted to get FreeBSD working as my desktop OS, with moderate results (working, but not working great). Most of the problems I faced were related to hardware incompatibilities because I was using hardware that was too new / unsupported. Since I don't want to...
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    Other Trinity Desktop Environment on FreeBSD

    Trinity, also known as TDE, is a desktop environment for Unix-derived and Unix-like operating systems. It is a continuation of KDE 3.5 much like MATE is to GNOME 2. TDE contains a substantial amount of KDE applications that lost features or were cut entirely in the Plasma era, such as aRts...
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    Gnome wayland status.

    Hello, I'm glad I can make it to land on FreeBSD OS (recently I'm using Linux distro for couple years). Btw, how is gnome wayland status? I mean, is it usable now? I'm trying to launch it via display manager (lightdm and sddm) but it's always unsuccessful and get kicked back to login page. I'm...
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    Solved XFCE does not show desktop

    I installed xfce from ports with portmaster and the desktop shows black. Does anybody know why? I installed vim, okular, chomium and then xfce successfully but this happened. I have nvidia drivers installed as well. When I installed okular, firefox stopped working. So I installed chromium to...
  8. grahamperrin

    ZFS OpenZFS L2ARC on a budget

    In April last year, I began using low-end flash (USB thumb drives) as L2ARC for a notebook with 16 GB memory. Very pleasing. Yesterday, I got an older notebook with 4 GB memory. An opportunity to tell whether a similar approach will be worthwhile. Early observations, with the cache device...
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    Solved FreeBSD 13.1 found 0 GPUs,

    I want to use freebsd13.1 + wayland + intel integrate grach card + wayfire. Now, I met a problem. When i start to run wayfire wm, show follow error message: found 0 GPUs, cannot create backend. failed to open any DRM device. I have installed and config follow: Install the graphics/drm-kmod...
  10. Sivan!

    slack make install errors

    /usr/ports/sysutils/slack doas make install clean whereis slack /usr/local/sbin/slack These are the errors. Please tell me how to fix these errors. Thank you.
  11. Sivan!

    Zoom in freeBSD works, but with some easily solvable minimal issues

    Zoom is among one of the new freeBSD ports net-im/zoom, installed zoom with some errors as can be seen from this forum post There are some errors to be fixed, but it works.
  12. dr3mro

    Tweaking Power Consumption

    I have Thinkpad x250 with freeBSD 13.1 RC4 with most of tweaks I could find online and in man pages enabled but I cannot get my power consuption below 5.5W even with all those tweaks and I am using BSPWM for comparison MS windows 10 uses 7 watt with all bloat running and UBUNTU 22.04 GNOME 42...
  13. marcelohsp

    Solved Which version between 12.2 and 13.0 would it be better for me to use as a desktop?

    I'm intenting to install on my SSD the FreeBSD Operating System with the KDE5 environment for daily use. I would like to know which version would you recommend me to install between 12.2 and or 13?
  14. senenmut

    what bsd compilation is best for desktop pc update in 2021 ?

    Hello , simple update. the reason for my question is to receive some opinions what compilation of bsd is actual the best in 2021. i know GHOSTBSD and that is the best from my actual knowledge. freebsd is the best indeed , however in this posting i ask for a extended version with full gui and...
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    Performance tuning

    I notice that after successful installation of KDE on FreeBSD, there are many files linked into the kernal, as shown by the command "kldstat". (1) I wondering where is this configured - what file(s)? I checked /boot/loader.conf and /etc/rc.conf and couldn't find them there. (2) Is there a...
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    [REQUEST] LPrint - A Label Printer Application

    Since I have just received the following feedback from upstream concerning the addition of a PPD + patch to rastertolabel.c to CUPS: and LPrint - A Label Printer Application not being available as a FreeBSD port yet, I'd like to ask if anyone is willing and able to have a look, as that would...
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    touchpad setup with libinput

    Hi everyone, I installed FreeBSD 13.0 and Mate desktop installed but I have 2 issues wit the touchpad which is a Alps model (at least, that's how it was described under W10 by cheeking the settings). The touchpad itself is working, the left and right button as well. 1) But I’m unable to...
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    Signal-Desktop / deltachat-desktop App

    I have just seen that neither the signalapp / Signal-Desktop nor the deltachat-desktop app has been ported to FreeBSD yet. Has anyone already taken a look if it's possible or to run the (Debian-based) Linux binary? Or to run the Windows app with Wine? P.S. I'm not using FreeBSD (waiting for...
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    signalapp / Signal-Desktop

    I was just wondering if someone would be interested in porting signalapp / Signal-Desktop or if there is specific reason why it hasn't been ported yet (Linux only?). P.S. I'm not using FreeBSD (waiting for 13.0 RELEASE to go onto my new laptop) or Signal yet, nor am I a developer, so this is...
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    MATE .core files in home (keyring, marco, ...)

    Hi everyone, this has been bugging me for several releases now. My Mate installation creates .core files in my home directory, even though I shut it down normally, I get no error messages and no bad behaviour. I understand that I can silence the whole mechanism by following...
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